Austrian director Clara Trischler has always been interested in border issues, the extent to which someone is defined by the place one is born into, the influence of outer circumstances on our personal stories and freedom. After studying at the European Film College in Denmark, she moved to Israel, where she worked for the World Centre for Holocaust Research "Yad Vashem" and as a correspondent for Austrian radio broadcasting during the Gaza War in 2009.
After a number of film internships in Berlin and New York, she started studying screenplay at the Film Academy of Vienna, where she discovered her love for documentary filmmaking. Since March 2013, Clara has been continuing her film studies at the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte in Buenos Aires.
For "The First Sea", her first long documentary film, Clara won the scholarship "Perspektive Österreichisches Nachwuchsfilmschaffen" and a Honorable Mention at the spec_script Award in 2010.
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